oeillade
See also: œillade
English
WOTD – 12 July 2011
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əːˈjɑːd/
Noun
oeillade (plural oeillades)
- (literary) A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle
- 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.4:
- I know your Lady do's not loue her Husband, / I am sure of that: and at her late being heere, / She gaue strange Eliads, and most speaking lookes / To Noble Edmund.
- 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:
- ‘My, my,’ she said, with an oeillade meant to be comic.
- 1999, Michael Billington, The Guardian, 4 Sep 1999:
- But the shifting moral tone is perfectly caught in Helen McCrory's polymorphous Phocion, who is mischievously aware of her sexual power and switches from macho snarls when seducing a woman to flirty oeillades when playing with a man.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.4:
Translations
glance, ogle
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French
Usage notes
Further reading
- “oeillade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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